About – UCI Health Affairs

One Health

UCI Health Affairs is a first-of-its-kind alliance uniting health disciplines, empowered by the entirety of the University of California Irvine. We are change-makers, creating a future of wellness and optimal healthcare for all people through healthcare delivery, cutting-edge research, education and service.

One Health is our interdisciplinary approach uniting world-leading experts in medicine, nursing, pharmaceutical sciences, public health and integrative health to advance the frontiers of knowledge. We pioneer innovations in research and teaching to deliver superb evidence-based care through our comprehensive regional healthcare system.

We are transforming the future through a collective commitment to educate a diverse healthcare workforce, to provide patient-centered, whole-person, team-based care that is precise for individuals and communities.

One Health is our structure and vision – a learning health system dedicated to continuous improvement and innovation that directs our mission – Discover. Teach. Heal.

Our Vision

One Health is a philosophy for how we care for individuals and populations. We conduct collaborative research and share information for the good of our community and in the name of global health equity.

Three circles indicating Discover, Teach, Heal

Our Mission

Discover. Teach. Heal. Our tripartite mission is accelerating the frontiers of knowledge, transforming the education of the diverse healthcare workforce of the future, and providing unequaled patient care for new cures, therapies, prevention and wellness. Driving a change in healthcare delivery from treatment only during episodes of illness to support of wellness through life.

three circles of Research Centers and Institutes; College of Health Sciences; UCI Health

Who We Are

Together, the Susan & Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences (COHS), the UC Irvine centers and institutes of health, and the healthcare delivery system, UCI Health form UCI Health Affairs.

Our Strategic Priorities

Five strategic priorities are carried out through the Susan & Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences, our centers and institutes of health, and UCI Health. Learn more about each priority and related initiatives.

Educate the Next Generation Healthcare Workforce

A diverse future healthcare workforce is needed to serve communities with cultural expertise; interprofessional education and practice (IPEP) will prepare current and future health workers to work as teams to meet California’s needs.

Discovery and Implementation

Advance health through basic, translational, and clinical research innovations where UC Irvine can uniquely address critical local and national needs.

Accelerate Precision Care

Improve healthcare quality, safety, equity, cost and policy using big data.

Advance Health Equity

Deploy strategies to achieve health equity for individuals, families and communities.

Innovate in Healthcare Service and Lifelong Wellness

Lead the emerging discipline of integrative whole-person health and expand access as a regional provider by creation of UCI Health — Irvine and alliances across Orange County.

More About Our Strategic Priorities